Hair today....
How times change. Twenty years ago when I joined the Financial Times the idea that the newspaper would have featured a news story about a popular television show would have been laughable.
Today I see there is a front page story about Big Brother and four other pieces inside. The decision by Carphone Warehouse to suspend its £3m sponsorship is business news. The show's impact on chancellor Gordon Brown's tour of India is political news.
Celebrity moves everything these days. It even moved Clay Harris to comment in his FT Mudlark column after spotting an advertisement on a tube of hair restorer endorsed by Cheryl Baker who used to sing in a pop group called Bucks Fizz.
As Clay writes, it didn't say "formerly of Bucks Fizz" or "of Bucks Fizz fame." Instead it said: "formerly of Bucks Fizz fame." Good one Clay. Now what were you doing looking at tubes of hair restorer?
Today I see there is a front page story about Big Brother and four other pieces inside. The decision by Carphone Warehouse to suspend its £3m sponsorship is business news. The show's impact on chancellor Gordon Brown's tour of India is political news.
Celebrity moves everything these days. It even moved Clay Harris to comment in his FT Mudlark column after spotting an advertisement on a tube of hair restorer endorsed by Cheryl Baker who used to sing in a pop group called Bucks Fizz.
As Clay writes, it didn't say "formerly of Bucks Fizz" or "of Bucks Fizz fame." Instead it said: "formerly of Bucks Fizz fame." Good one Clay. Now what were you doing looking at tubes of hair restorer?
Labels: Big Brother, Bucks Fizz, Carphone Warehouse, Cheryl Baker, Clay Harris, Financial Times, hair restorer, India Gordon Brown, Mudlark, television
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